Pro-Second Amendment / Anti-Scott Brown rally – a couple of thoughts - Granite Grok

Pro-Second Amendment / Anti-Scott Brown rally – a couple of thoughts

I learned a couple of things last night while at the rally:

  • The folks that came out last night are fired up – they DO take politics personally because politicians have been making legislation more and more personal
  • I think politicians on the Right are going to get caught by surprise at this – because while it has been the politicians on the Left that have made it personal (Progressivism: the personal is politics, politics is personal), they blame the Republican politicians for going along and allowing them to do it to them.
  • They feel they are being dissed by the Party that they feel should be standing up for them – a lack of loyalty.
  • They ask the question: “Why should I vote for you, or work for you, when you celebrate someone who does not respect ALL of our Rights?  Why should we sell out to you?”

And taking this personally, they personally are going to go out and let their family, their neighbors, and their friends know of their ire.  They are the influence makers that naturally should belong to the NH GOP – and the NH GOP absolutely needs them.  Instead, last night happened: 

  • Did Scott Brown come over to talk to them?

Not that I am aware of – and these folks would have been respectful.

  • Did NH GOP Chair Jennifer Horn deign to walk across the street to talk to some that disagreed with them, try to understand their angst, to “Building Bridges“?

Nope.

  • Did anyone from the NH GOP Executive Board decide to brave the cold and risk their wingtips, loafers, pumps or stilettos in the snow to even ask “What’s up”   Again, a  “Building Bridges“?

Rinse and repeat that last answer.

Obama told his followers “to get in their faces” when confronting their mutual foes.  Absent an friendly hand out (or even just an honest one), have they made more foes?

About “Building Bridges“.   Many of those there last night are veterans: they know that loyalty flows upward only when loyalty flows downward.  Last night, the Party showed how political loyalty works – a perfect opportunity ignored.

And lost.  The lesson what will soon be learned by the NH GOP is that it wasn’t just the 250 – 300 people on the cold street corner last night, dwarfing the attendees inside the NH GOP event (whom I am told, like the last few “fundraisers” were there on freebie tickets so as to make the hall seem full of adorees) – it will be several circles of other people that will be influenced by this innermost circle.  They won’t listen to “But the Democrats will win!” and such because Republicans make them feel like they lose – always.

For the want of a shoe, a horse was lost….for the want of an inquiring face, may elections be lost?

Update: Just got a phone survey from the Ending Spending folks.  They gave me the option to vote for Jeanne Shaheen, Scott Brown, or not sure.  What, no “None of the the above“?

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